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Project Late, A personal Moan but all else on track.

Ok so I said I would be launching my new project today, and I know you're all awaiting for it, but the last week has been a little manic in the office, and the weekend just flew by (With a win for my London Irish boys and one game away from club history) So I have reserved this weekend to put the finishing touches to it and it WILL be launching next Monday 21st January 2008 I promise. (I think I'm putting a little bit too much build up into this but lets see ;)

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Monthly Thought: Weclome to 2008, Welcome to the New Look Blog

So I'm 4 days late, but Happy New Year one and all!

To go with the New year I decided I would spend a little more time on the design of my blog, so for the last few weeks I have searched the net looking for a few free designs that I liked. (Being a developer my design skills suck!)

As we are all different I couldn't find one I liked totally but I stumbled across Designs by Darren Where I found two designs I liked the News Portal and the Tech blog so I merged the parts I liked and now have what you see. Which I hope is a lot better looking then the last Irn-Bru looking one.

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Friday Thought: WorkStation Set-up

This week my new 20" Wide Screen Monitor turned up from HP Refurbs, I got it for οΎ£132 on their eBay shop. Has the same resolution as my Mac Book Pro Screen so works a treat.

So here is my work station set up.

It's currently a quick set up in a quite part of the office so I can get a job done with minimal interruptions and the ability to Zone out.

I have my SPV 3100 Windows Mobile syncing with the mac now using The Missing Sync OK the latest version is a bit buggy and hopefully it will become more stable but does what I need for now.

I've had a fan on my desk for the last 6 years, I prefer to control my own temperature meaning that if someone is cold or hot they don't have to bother me I'm OK Jack :) I prefer being cold anyway as you can always warm up with more clothes but being too hot just sucks.

I had to get a chair that suited me, and working for a small company I thought hell I got that money from HSBC I'll get myself a decent chair that will help my posture and dam is it!!!

The we have the great Mac Book Pro I don't know how I worked without it, so simple and fast!!!! Now with the extra monitor it makes developing web applications so much easier with windows everywhere and of course the new friend twitter and iChat :)

I decided to get a Pair of USB Headphone that will always stay with my mac Book as sometimes I forget to take my Bluetooth ones with me plus MAC OSX 10.4 doesn't have A2DP yet so the quality is really bad. Also means if I decided to do a podcast or vidcast the audio is digital all the way.

Finally I've always had a pint glass normally either a Stella or Guinness one at the moment just a bog standard one but its does the trick. As everyone has I'm sure I have my favorite mug, mine being the one with my name on (And people still try to use it grrrr) I got it for XMAS my first year at Sky from my then Manager and it's been with me ever since ahhhhh.

I know Mark Drew and some others have done this in the past but what is everyone else's set up out there?

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